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"Deadly Remedy: Strange illnesses lead horse breeder to challenge fluoridation of Pagosa's water"
by Cathy Justus (With permission from the author and Pagosa Daily Post, of www.pagosa.com. Article posted in Pagosa Daily Post on 5/23/05.)Click here to read the latest update on this aricle
Editor's note: Horse breeder Cathy Justus recently led a successful campaign to stop the fluoridation of the Pagosa Springs water supply. Though many experts assert that water fluoridation is a harmless practice which is beneficial to a community's dental health, Cathy's experiences and research pointed to a different conclusion.
In the late 1970s Wayne and I bought property and moved to Pagosa Springs from a non-fluoridated area in southern California. We had been raising show-quality quarter horses for years and wanted to continue that endeavor in Pagosa. Being very aware of the effect of clean air and water, I felt that this was a perfect place to be, especially since Pagosa is at the foot of the Continental Divide and at the headwaters of the clean fresh water coming from the mountains.
Chronic colics and other serious ailments
We had never had problems with our horses being sick and crippled before. Their good health stopped when fluoridation started. The sickness started with chronic colics. We averaged one or two colics a month. It could be any of our horses at any time. The colics continued until the winter of 2003/04. (I will elaborate on that later.)
The colt's head less than half normal length
A few years later we took a mare to a different breeding farm. She was bred, brought home during gestation and taken back a few weeks before delivery. One night I received a phone call from the ranch owner. She said my mare was in labor and couldn't physically deliver the foal. The attending vet said he had palpated her and couldn't distinguish a normal foal. He gave three options: first, cut the baby up inside of her; or second, do a caesarian section (both of which would require massive amounts of time and drugs). She would be crippled by the drugs and would never be able to conceive again. Or third, put her down, and save her from a lifetime of pain. We opted to put her down. An autopsy was done. The colt's head was less than half the normal length. He had no eyes or nostrils, no neck and no muscles at all...just skin over bones.
It wasn't until last year when I bought the book, The Fluoride Deception, by Christopher Bryson, that I made the tie to fluoride poisoning. It refers to the most expensive U.S. corporate episode in history relating to fluoride in the 1990s (where over $1.3 billion in costs and settlements were paid out). As late as July 2003, the Florida Supreme Court also reinstated a $4 million jury award to the family of a boy born without eyes. These unbelievably strange coincidences kept appearing related to the illnesses our animals were having as I did more studies.
We were losing horses and dogs to some mysterious thing. The problems were so diverse that no one could tell me what was happening to my animals. And no one knew enough about fluoride to point to it being the cause. Being raised to "be independent of the good or bad opinion of others" and to investigate to find my own conclusion, I started researching fluoride fifteen years ago.
I was raised from birth on holistic and alternative medicine and whole foods. I have always had an intense interest in this subject and had known for years that fluoride was poison. It is just slightly less poisonous than arsenic and more poisonous than lead. What’s worse... it’s cumulative.
I knew our water was fluoridated, and that it would be a major undertaking to get fluoridation stopped, so I tried other avenues to see if anything else could be the culprit of our animals’ many problems. Wayne and I drink distilled water, so it wasn't affecting us. To distill enough water for our animals was impossible - horses drink between ten to twelve gallons of water a day. That means they can accumulate far more fluoride in a smaller amount of time than people. As Dr. Krook said, “Horses are like the canaries in the mines. What shows up in them is manifesting in those people who drink fluoridated water too... at a faster pace in horses.
No changes in symptoms
We ordered hay a semi-load at a time to give us a year for testing (from as far away as LaJara, CO, to Bloomfield, NM, and sources in between) with no changes in symptoms. We did the same with grain. All this was done with no change in progression. The illnesses were getting worse. With each generation, the problems were building and presenting earlier.
I have always supplemented with only organic herbs and supplements (which I mix myself so the possibility of unknown additives in the supplements was not an issue). I changed sources of these individual ingredients, modified and deleted them. Still no change in the progression of symptoms.
Six vets were consulted (two of which were at CSU) starting in 2000 for my most precious mare Perfectlydun Bonanza (Baby Doe). She had many, many various symptoms; some of which were reproductive, continuous infections, thyroid problems, Cushings (Equine Metabolic Syndrome), lameness, bone deformity, breathing problems, etc. Even though I mentioned to all of these vets that I thought her problems were caused by the fluoride in the drinking water, all of them poo-poo’d me.
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After bringing her home from CSU in August of 2002 with no diagnosis or cure, I decided that God was telling me something. I was not using what I had been taught and been raised with: holistic healing. It certainly wouldn't hurt. I had tried everything else. We still had found no source for non-fluoridated water, but I felt that treating the fluoride-caused symptoms specifically would be a step forward. The perfect solution of course, was to stop the fluoridated water (what I felt was the source of the problem).
I’d been sending the Pagosa Area Water and Sewer District masses of literature on fluoride's toxicity for years, but my beliefs were only my theory. I had no concrete evidence. What I can prove is that sodium silicofluorides (a toxic byproduct of the phosphate and aluminum industries) was being put into our water. It comes from the industrial scrubbers and is called a "toxic soup" by the industries because it doesn't just contain fluoride, but also lead, arsenic, beryllium, silica and a host of other toxins. This stuff (despite what you have been told by the promoters of fluoride) has never ever had any safety studies done on it. It is considered a highly toxic waste by the EPA, and they must be contacted immediately if it gets spilled on the land, in rivers, lakes or oceans, or gets into our air. But when it is sold to water companies to put it into our drinking water, it suddenly becomes a product that is supposed to be good for us. Isn't that amazing?! Read The Fluoride Deception to find recently declassified, "top secret" government papers that tell exactly how this lie got started and promoted. This book is a page-turner.
Herbal help
After bringing Baby Doe home from CSU, I first had her thyroid checked. It was under-functioning. Next was a major homeopathic cleanse. After years of her having a constant infection (starting with simple ones, proceeding to e-coli, then to a staph infection), it was finally being overcome. Her outward appearance and energy picked up. I also used herbs for cleansing, photonic therapy, acupuncture, acupressure, message and more. I used these same treatments on all our horses. There seemed to be a little improvement, but not enough.
In the spring of 2003, we had this mare palpated again to see if she had improved. The vet said that she still had very little uterine tone and very odd eggs and thought we would never get her in foal again, but he wanted to see all the previous ultrasounds, biopsies and records for comparison. After reviewing what he had found and the previous tests, he said she had improved some and to keep up what I was doing and call him in a year.
Symptoms improve when horses stop drinking city water
The winter of 2003/04 was the first in over 10 that we had snow on the ground all winter. We noticed our outside 100-gallon heated water tank of city water only needed filling every 18 days instead of the usual every day and a half. The horses were eating snow instead of drinking the heated fluoridated water. They knew it was poison. The symptoms in all the horses started leaving. The improvement in Baby Doe was miraculous. She put on weight and started shedding the "Cushings Symptom" hair and shed all winter long. This was the first winter in over 10 years that we didn't have one single colic. The lack of them drinking the city water was the only thing that had changed.
One and a half weeks after all the snow was gone in the spring of 2004 and all the horses had to drink the city water again we had our first colic; 9 1/2 hours worth of cramping stomach and intestinal cramping. We were finally able to find a source of river water the middle of March 2004 and that was the last colic we have had.
On October 1st 2004 Baby Doe was euthanized. The assault of the fluoride on her neurological system was just more than she could handle for too many years. Her last 16 hours of life were horrible. She had no neurological function. A needle could be stuck into her anywhere in her body with no reaction. Of course this created many other physical things to happen in her body. Her breathing was extremely labored, her heart rate had gone up to over 120bpm to try to compensate for other malfunctions. It was awful. The attending vet said the symptoms were so varied that a diagnosis at the time couldn't be reached. An autopsy was suggested and I asked for her to be checked for fluoride poisoning and the comment I got was, "fluoride is supposed to be good for you." I replied, "You too have believed the lie spread for over 50 years." Baby Doe was autopsied for other things, all of which came back negative. There was no lab found that knew how to check for fluoride poisoning.
Source of ailments solved
I was distraught. I was determined to find the answer. Baby Doe was the fifth horse we had lost and we had lost four dogs too, all with mysterious ailments. During the last 15 years I have done an intense study of fluoride and what it can do to the body. I have read both sides of the issue and there is an overwhelming proof, over 60,000 worldwide independent studies, that fluoride was the culprit of our animals’ illnesses. I got on the phone and started calling from coast to coast to find a lab or a fluoride expert who could help me find the truth, one way or the other, of what was killing my animals. After over a week and a half I contacted Dr. Lennart Krook, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biomedical Sciences, at Cornell University in New York. He is a world authority on fluoride toxicity in animals. He has spent his career of over 50 years studying fluoride and has written 15 peer reviewed articles published in prestigious journals on this subject. I described the many varied symptoms we had seen through the years and he said they all could be related to fluoride poisoning but he would have to have a bone to check for the fluoride content to give a scientific analysis. I told him the mare had been buried for a week and a half and he said, "Dig her up." I told him I didn't think that I could emotionally do that. He said, "You have to." He said there were literally millions of people and animals being poisoned by fluoride and that any evidence of this was needed. The industries producing this toxic byproduct they put in our water have suppressed this info since fluoridation was started over 50 years ago.
The next morning Wayne got a backhoe, dug Baby Doe up, excised a foreleg and sent it to Cornell. About a month later a 17-page report came back with the final conclusion of "Chronic Fluoride Poisoning." Since then, Dr. Krook has requested color photos of the teeth of our remaining living horses. I told him I had saved baby teeth from all our horses and he requested them too for diagnosis. A 14-page report came back on them and its final conclusion on all our living horses was "Afflicted with chronic fluoride poisoning." Even a 33-month-old filly we bought out of state at 7-months-old and brought here was showing very distinct signs of chronic fluoride poisoning in her only two adult teeth. They were already chipping off and showing dental fluorosis.
Since then, another horse in the county that had thyroid problems, Equine Metabolic Syndrome plus other similar symptoms was put down, and a leg was taken and sent to Cornell. "Chronic fluoride poisoning" was the conclusion on him too. An interesting note is that he had been on the fluoridated Pagosa water for half as long as Baby Doe (11 years vs. 21 years) and had more residual fluoride in his bones. This shows how each individual is susceptible differently to accumulation amounts of fluoride. I think this proves that my cleansing specifically pointed towards the fluoride accumulation was working. Just not soon or fast enough to save Baby Doe from the long-term damage fluoride had caused to her nervous and reproductive systems.
Why the effects?
A question I have received many times over the years is why was it affecting our horses and not others. Most horse owners don’t keep their horses here 365 days a year like we have. Most horses were here for the summer then sent in the fall to winter somewhere else. They had a few months of accumulation and more months to cleanse the fluoride from their bodies. Fluoride will leach out slowly from the body if more is not added every day. Also a lot of the horses are given well water. Yes, there can be natural occurring fluoride in well water, which is bad too but this isn't always the case. And with fluoride working on a systemic level, the enzyme system, the DNA, the DNA repair system and the collagen system, the very core of life, it can create virtually any disease depending on the specific weakness of that individual.
As you can see, that is why we had such varied illness in our animals. That is the reason it is so hard to diagnose fluoride toxicity. How many people do you know that have had a bone taken and checked for fluoride accumulation after death? People and animals die and the reason for death is pointed at the symptom that was manifested by the fluoride rather than the cause which in Baby Doe's case was fluoride accumulation slowly killing her day by day and manifesting mainly in her reproductive and nervous system and thyroid. Dr. Krook said the organs and blood taken from Baby Doe would not have shown a positive amount of fluoride in the body because fluoride can change from hour to hour in soft tissue and blood. Since fluoride has its biggest attraction to calcium (our bones and teeth) and bone cell turnover is the slowest in the body, bone analysis is the only true way to test for fluoride buildup in the body.If anyone would like to talk to me further about this subject, please call (970) 264-4462, or email justusoriginals@pagosa.net.
JUSTUS POISONED HORSES UPDATE: January, 2006
I wanted to write and give you an update on the health improvement of all but one of our horses, since artificial fluoridation stopped in Pagosa Springs at the end of March 2005.
Bonanza’s Q T Bar (Bird) was euthanised in October 2005 after years of pain from crippling skeletal fluorosis. We had expected her to give up years ago but she had such a big heart and strong will to live. She had deformed hooves, bones, ligaments and tendons that were fused together; even her soft tissue was hard in places from fluoride being deposited there. Her ribs were so fused together that she couldn't get enough air to clear her airway or lungs and that is what ultimately took her life. She had extreme difficulty breathing, moving and balancing. She will be missed, along with the others we have lost to fluoride poisoning.But on a good note, all the other living horses that were diagnosed by Dr. Krook at Cornell University as having Chronic Fluoride Poisoning have improved significantly. As you know, since the middle of March 2004, we started getting water from the San Juan River for our horses and in March 2005 water fluoridation was stopped in Pagosa Springs. Since we started giving them river water (without fluoride) they have had no colic at all. That is almost two years now without one episode of colic, after having two to three a month for well over fifteen years while our horses drank the artificially fluoridated water. I think that alone says it all – but I have more good news about their health improvements since they stopped drinking fluoridated water.
I will tell you about each horse, one by one.Winning Gold Bonanza (Win). Born in 1998 to Baby Doe, he has had hard lumps under his skin almost since he was born. All these lumps are softening and dissipating. He has always urinated a lot and he is down to normal urination now. This symptom went along with his thyroid problems which are improving. Win's hips have stuck out far beyond what they should have for years and he would stumble when his back legs would go out from under him. The swelling is gone and I have not seen him stumble for well over six months now. Skips Winning Bonanza (Skipper). Born in 1999 to Baby Doe, he has had skeletal problems since birth, with front legs so terribly crooked I didn't think he would even be able to stand. The vet suggested we wait a few months because he thought they would straighten on their own. They didn't. The vet suggested pinning, stapling, scraping, casting, etc. to straighten them. I decided to try the homeopathic remedy Calcium Fluoride on him since I was sure it was the fluoride in the water that had made his legs crooked. In Homeopathy, "like cures like" so if fluoride was the culprit, homeopathic fluoride would work. We gave him four doses a day of Calc Fluor 3X for three days, 6X for three days and 12 X for three days. At the end of those nine days his legs were straight. It was totally amazing but that is how Homeopathy works when you get the right remedy. Skipper's left hip and stifle started to lock up and got so bad by the time he was two years old that he would take steps of only about six inches on that side and he would never take his left lead. His tendons and ligaments have softened now to the point that his step length is almost normal. In the last month he has started taking his left lead on his own and overall moving much more fluidly. Skipper has also had urinary and prostate problems and seemed to urinate all the time. That is getting much better now. His attitude has also changed for the better.
Impressive N Elegant (Siena) born in 2002, was on the fluoridated water for only eighteen months. We bought her elsewhere and brought her here. She developed weird bumps all over her body after drinking fluoridated water. She was diagnosed by two vets as having immune system dysfunction. These bumps went away when we would take her to circuit horse shows in non fluoridated areas and came back when she drank fluoridated water at home, until we got river water and then Pagosa Springs fluoridation stopped. She has not had a recurrence of these bumps since fluoridation was stopped. She had also developed a chronic cough when drinking fluoridated water, but that is totally gone. She was bred this last May and we are hoping and praying for a healthy and normal foal this spring. She is the first mare that had been on fluoridated water that we have been able to get in foal since 2000, despite trying diligently.Skips Classic Edition (Mister) who was born in 1986, has had a chronic cough for the biggest part of his life and especially when he was worked. This last summer my husband took him on a pack trip up into the San Juan Mountains for four days and he didn't cough once. It was amazing.
Cleansing from fluoride poisoning
All of our horses have had oozing from mostly their coronary bands along the top of their hooves for years. In 2003, when I started giving them alternative treatments, herbs, and homeopathic remedies, they showed signs that their bodies were trying to cleanse naturally of the accumulated fluoride and they all started oozing at lymph node sites also. This oozing has continued through 2004 and 2005, lessening over time. About a month ago, I noticed that all the horses had stopped this oozing.I will continue with the holistic cleansing protocol because I know it will take time to get the years of accumulated fluoride out of their systems. I feel they need the extra help in cleansing fluoride out as quickly as possible, just time and clean water are not enough. From the results I am getting, I know it works. I am totally convinced – the obvious improvement in their health since my horses quit drinking fluoridated water, after years of a continual decline in health during the time they were drinking fluoridated water, is proof positive that the fluoride was poisoning them. I want to thank God for revealing this to me and giving me the knowledge and people with the knowledge to be able to diagnose the problem myself. For over fifteen years our local water department totally ignored my letters and calls to stop fluoridation. I want to thank all the experts I've talked to over the years for their patience with me and to those who directed me to Dr. Krook. I especially want to thank Dr. Krook from Cornell University for his time, knowledge and expertise in diagnosing my horses with chronic fluoride poisoning and accepting the bones I sent for diagnosis. I also want to thank him for not ignoring me and acknowledging my fluoride poisoning suspicions when I called him on the phone out of the blue. He said I was the first to ever do such a thing. It does pay to be bull-headed, not give up and pursue what you believe in your heart to be true. . I feel we are going to see a snowball effect on this subject and the producers of this poison are suddenly going to have a rude awakening. And it is about time. Sincerely, Cathy.
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Personal Stories: Cathy Justus
"Deadly Remedy: Strange illnesses lead horse breeder to challenge fluoridation of Pagosa's water"
by Cathy Justus (With permission from the author and Pagosa Daily Post, of www.pagosa.com. Article posted in Pagosa Daily Post on 5/23/05.)Click here to read the latest update on this aricle
Editor's note: Horse breeder Cathy Justus recently led a successful campaign to stop the fluoridation of the Pagosa Springs water supply. Though many experts assert that water fluoridation is a harmless practice which is beneficial to a community's dental health, Cathy's experiences and research pointed to a different conclusion.
In the late 1970s Wayne and I bought property and moved to Pagosa Springs from a non-fluoridated area in southern California. We had been raising show-quality quarter horses for years and wanted to continue that endeavor in Pagosa. Being very aware of the effect of clean air and water, I felt that this was a perfect place to be, especially since Pagosa is at the foot of the Continental Divide and at the headwaters of the clean fresh water coming from the mountains.
Chronic colics and other serious ailments
We had never had problems with our horses being sick and crippled before. Their good health stopped when fluoridation started. The sickness started with chronic colics. We averaged one or two colics a month. It could be any of our horses at any time. The colics continued until the winter of 2003/04. (I will elaborate on that later.)
The colt's head less than half normal length
A few years later we took a mare to a different breeding farm. She was bred, brought home during gestation and taken back a few weeks before delivery. One night I received a phone call from the ranch owner. She said my mare was in labor and couldn't physically deliver the foal. The attending vet said he had palpated her and couldn't distinguish a normal foal. He gave three options: first, cut the baby up inside of her; or second, do a caesarian section (both of which would require massive amounts of time and drugs). She would be crippled by the drugs and would never be able to conceive again. Or third, put her down, and save her from a lifetime of pain. We opted to put her down. An autopsy was done. The colt's head was less than half the normal length. He had no eyes or nostrils, no neck and no muscles at all...just skin over bones.
It wasn't until last year when I bought the book, The Fluoride Deception, by Christopher Bryson, that I made the tie to fluoride poisoning. It refers to the most expensive U.S. corporate episode in history relating to fluoride in the 1990s (where over $1.3 billion in costs and settlements were paid out). As late as July 2003, the Florida Supreme Court also reinstated a $4 million jury award to the family of a boy born without eyes. These unbelievably strange coincidences kept appearing related to the illnesses our animals were having as I did more studies.
We were losing horses and dogs to some mysterious thing. The problems were so diverse that no one could tell me what was happening to my animals. And no one knew enough about fluoride to point to it being the cause. Being raised to "be independent of the good or bad opinion of others" and to investigate to find my own conclusion, I started researching fluoride fifteen years ago.
I was raised from birth on holistic and alternative medicine and whole foods. I have always had an intense interest in this subject and had known for years that fluoride was poison. It is just slightly less poisonous than arsenic and more poisonous than lead. What’s worse... it’s cumulative.
I knew our water was fluoridated, and that it would be a major undertaking to get fluoridation stopped, so I tried other avenues to see if anything else could be the culprit of our animals’ many problems. Wayne and I drink distilled water, so it wasn't affecting us. To distill enough water for our animals was impossible - horses drink between ten to twelve gallons of water a day. That means they can accumulate far more fluoride in a smaller amount of time than people. As Dr. Krook said, “Horses are like the canaries in the mines. What shows up in them is manifesting in those people who drink fluoridated water too... at a faster pace in horses.
No changes in symptoms
We ordered hay a semi-load at a time to give us a year for testing (from as far away as LaJara, CO, to Bloomfield, NM, and sources in between) with no changes in symptoms. We did the same with grain. All this was done with no change in progression. The illnesses were getting worse. With each generation, the problems were building and presenting earlier.
I have always supplemented with only organic herbs and supplements (which I mix myself so the possibility of unknown additives in the supplements was not an issue). I changed sources of these individual ingredients, modified and deleted them. Still no change in the progression of symptoms.
Six vets were consulted (two of which were at CSU) starting in 2000 for my most precious mare Perfectlydun Bonanza (Baby Doe). She had many, many various symptoms; some of which were reproductive, continuous infections, thyroid problems, Cushings (Equine Metabolic Syndrome), lameness, bone deformity, breathing problems, etc. Even though I mentioned to all of these vets that I thought her problems were caused by the fluoride in the drinking water, all of them poo-poo’d me.
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After bringing her home from CSU in August of 2002 with no diagnosis or cure, I decided that God was telling me something. I was not using what I had been taught and been raised with: holistic healing. It certainly wouldn't hurt. I had tried everything else. We still had found no source for non-fluoridated water, but I felt that treating the fluoride-caused symptoms specifically would be a step forward. The perfect solution of course, was to stop the fluoridated water (what I felt was the source of the problem).
I’d been sending the Pagosa Area Water and Sewer District masses of literature on fluoride's toxicity for years, but my beliefs were only my theory. I had no concrete evidence. What I can prove is that sodium silicofluorides (a toxic byproduct of the phosphate and aluminum industries) was being put into our water. It comes from the industrial scrubbers and is called a "toxic soup" by the industries because it doesn't just contain fluoride, but also lead, arsenic, beryllium, silica and a host of other toxins. This stuff (despite what you have been told by the promoters of fluoride) has never ever had any safety studies done on it. It is considered a highly toxic waste by the EPA, and they must be contacted immediately if it gets spilled on the land, in rivers, lakes or oceans, or gets into our air. But when it is sold to water companies to put it into our drinking water, it suddenly becomes a product that is supposed to be good for us. Isn't that amazing?! Read The Fluoride Deception to find recently declassified, "top secret" government papers that tell exactly how this lie got started and promoted. This book is a page-turner.
Herbal help
After bringing Baby Doe home from CSU, I first had her thyroid checked. It was under-functioning. Next was a major homeopathic cleanse. After years of her having a constant infection (starting with simple ones, proceeding to e-coli, then to a staph infection), it was finally being overcome. Her outward appearance and energy picked up. I also used herbs for cleansing, photonic therapy, acupuncture, acupressure, message and more. I used these same treatments on all our horses. There seemed to be a little improvement, but not enough.
In the spring of 2003, we had this mare palpated again to see if she had improved. The vet said that she still had very little uterine tone and very odd eggs and thought we would never get her in foal again, but he wanted to see all the previous ultrasounds, biopsies and records for comparison. After reviewing what he had found and the previous tests, he said she had improved some and to keep up what I was doing and call him in a year.
Symptoms improve when horses stop drinking city water
The winter of 2003/04 was the first in over 10 that we had snow on the ground all winter. We noticed our outside 100-gallon heated water tank of city water only needed filling every 18 days instead of the usual every day and a half. The horses were eating snow instead of drinking the heated fluoridated water. They knew it was poison. The symptoms in all the horses started leaving. The improvement in Baby Doe was miraculous. She put on weight and started shedding the "Cushings Symptom" hair and shed all winter long. This was the first winter in over 10 years that we didn't have one single colic. The lack of them drinking the city water was the only thing that had changed.
One and a half weeks after all the snow was gone in the spring of 2004 and all the horses had to drink the city water again we had our first colic; 9 1/2 hours worth of cramping stomach and intestinal cramping. We were finally able to find a source of river water the middle of March 2004 and that was the last colic we have had.
On October 1st 2004 Baby Doe was euthanized. The assault of the fluoride on her neurological system was just more than she could handle for too many years. Her last 16 hours of life were horrible. She had no neurological function. A needle could be stuck into her anywhere in her body with no reaction. Of course this created many other physical things to happen in her body. Her breathing was extremely labored, her heart rate had gone up to over 120bpm to try to compensate for other malfunctions. It was awful. The attending vet said the symptoms were so varied that a diagnosis at the time couldn't be reached. An autopsy was suggested and I asked for her to be checked for fluoride poisoning and the comment I got was, "fluoride is supposed to be good for you." I replied, "You too have believed the lie spread for over 50 years." Baby Doe was autopsied for other things, all of which came back negative. There was no lab found that knew how to check for fluoride poisoning.
Source of ailments solved
I was distraught. I was determined to find the answer. Baby Doe was the fifth horse we had lost and we had lost four dogs too, all with mysterious ailments. During the last 15 years I have done an intense study of fluoride and what it can do to the body. I have read both sides of the issue and there is an overwhelming proof, over 60,000 worldwide independent studies, that fluoride was the culprit of our animals’ illnesses. I got on the phone and started calling from coast to coast to find a lab or a fluoride expert who could help me find the truth, one way or the other, of what was killing my animals. After over a week and a half I contacted Dr. Lennart Krook, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biomedical Sciences, at Cornell University in New York. He is a world authority on fluoride toxicity in animals. He has spent his career of over 50 years studying fluoride and has written 15 peer reviewed articles published in prestigious journals on this subject. I described the many varied symptoms we had seen through the years and he said they all could be related to fluoride poisoning but he would have to have a bone to check for the fluoride content to give a scientific analysis. I told him the mare had been buried for a week and a half and he said, "Dig her up." I told him I didn't think that I could emotionally do that. He said, "You have to." He said there were literally millions of people and animals being poisoned by fluoride and that any evidence of this was needed. The industries producing this toxic byproduct they put in our water have suppressed this info since fluoridation was started over 50 years ago.
The next morning Wayne got a backhoe, dug Baby Doe up, excised a foreleg and sent it to Cornell. About a month later a 17-page report came back with the final conclusion of "Chronic Fluoride Poisoning." Since then, Dr. Krook has requested color photos of the teeth of our remaining living horses. I told him I had saved baby teeth from all our horses and he requested them too for diagnosis. A 14-page report came back on them and its final conclusion on all our living horses was "Afflicted with chronic fluoride poisoning." Even a 33-month-old filly we bought out of state at 7-months-old and brought here was showing very distinct signs of chronic fluoride poisoning in her only two adult teeth. They were already chipping off and showing dental fluorosis.
Since then, another horse in the county that had thyroid problems, Equine Metabolic Syndrome plus other similar symptoms was put down, and a leg was taken and sent to Cornell. "Chronic fluoride poisoning" was the conclusion on him too. An interesting note is that he had been on the fluoridated Pagosa water for half as long as Baby Doe (11 years vs. 21 years) and had more residual fluoride in his bones. This shows how each individual is susceptible differently to accumulation amounts of fluoride. I think this proves that my cleansing specifically pointed towards the fluoride accumulation was working. Just not soon or fast enough to save Baby Doe from the long-term damage fluoride had caused to her nervous and reproductive systems.
Why the effects?
A question I have received many times over the years is why was it affecting our horses and not others. Most horse owners don’t keep their horses here 365 days a year like we have. Most horses were here for the summer then sent in the fall to winter somewhere else. They had a few months of accumulation and more months to cleanse the fluoride from their bodies. Fluoride will leach out slowly from the body if more is not added every day. Also a lot of the horses are given well water. Yes, there can be natural occurring fluoride in well water, which is bad too but this isn't always the case. And with fluoride working on a systemic level, the enzyme system, the DNA, the DNA repair system and the collagen system, the very core of life, it can create virtually any disease depending on the specific weakness of that individual.
As you can see, that is why we had such varied illness in our animals. That is the reason it is so hard to diagnose fluoride toxicity. How many people do you know that have had a bone taken and checked for fluoride accumulation after death? People and animals die and the reason for death is pointed at the symptom that was manifested by the fluoride rather than the cause which in Baby Doe's case was fluoride accumulation slowly killing her day by day and manifesting mainly in her reproductive and nervous system and thyroid. Dr. Krook said the organs and blood taken from Baby Doe would not have shown a positive amount of fluoride in the body because fluoride can change from hour to hour in soft tissue and blood. Since fluoride has its biggest attraction to calcium (our bones and teeth) and bone cell turnover is the slowest in the body, bone analysis is the only true way to test for fluoride buildup in the body.If anyone would like to talk to me further about this subject, please call (970) 264-4462, or email justusoriginals@pagosa.net.
JUSTUS POISONED HORSES UPDATE: January, 2006
I wanted to write and give you an update on the health improvement of all but one of our horses, since artificial fluoridation stopped in Pagosa Springs at the end of March 2005.
Bonanza’s Q T Bar (Bird) was euthanised in October 2005 after years of pain from crippling skeletal fluorosis. We had expected her to give up years ago but she had such a big heart and strong will to live. She had deformed hooves, bones, ligaments and tendons that were fused together; even her soft tissue was hard in places from fluoride being deposited there. Her ribs were so fused together that she couldn't get enough air to clear her airway or lungs and that is what ultimately took her life. She had extreme difficulty breathing, moving and balancing. She will be missed, along with the others we have lost to fluoride poisoning.But on a good note, all the other living horses that were diagnosed by Dr. Krook at Cornell University as having Chronic Fluoride Poisoning have improved significantly. As you know, since the middle of March 2004, we started getting water from the San Juan River for our horses and in March 2005 water fluoridation was stopped in Pagosa Springs. Since we started giving them river water (without fluoride) they have had no colic at all. That is almost two years now without one episode of colic, after having two to three a month for well over fifteen years while our horses drank the artificially fluoridated water. I think that alone says it all – but I have more good news about their health improvements since they stopped drinking fluoridated water.
I will tell you about each horse, one by one.Winning Gold Bonanza (Win). Born in 1998 to Baby Doe, he has had hard lumps under his skin almost since he was born. All these lumps are softening and dissipating. He has always urinated a lot and he is down to normal urination now. This symptom went along with his thyroid problems which are improving. Win's hips have stuck out far beyond what they should have for years and he would stumble when his back legs would go out from under him. The swelling is gone and I have not seen him stumble for well over six months now. Skips Winning Bonanza (Skipper). Born in 1999 to Baby Doe, he has had skeletal problems since birth, with front legs so terribly crooked I didn't think he would even be able to stand. The vet suggested we wait a few months because he thought they would straighten on their own. They didn't. The vet suggested pinning, stapling, scraping, casting, etc. to straighten them. I decided to try the homeopathic remedy Calcium Fluoride on him since I was sure it was the fluoride in the water that had made his legs crooked. In Homeopathy, "like cures like" so if fluoride was the culprit, homeopathic fluoride would work. We gave him four doses a day of Calc Fluor 3X for three days, 6X for three days and 12 X for three days. At the end of those nine days his legs were straight. It was totally amazing but that is how Homeopathy works when you get the right remedy. Skipper's left hip and stifle started to lock up and got so bad by the time he was two years old that he would take steps of only about six inches on that side and he would never take his left lead. His tendons and ligaments have softened now to the point that his step length is almost normal. In the last month he has started taking his left lead on his own and overall moving much more fluidly. Skipper has also had urinary and prostate problems and seemed to urinate all the time. That is getting much better now. His attitude has also changed for the better.
Impressive N Elegant (Siena) born in 2002, was on the fluoridated water for only eighteen months. We bought her elsewhere and brought her here. She developed weird bumps all over her body after drinking fluoridated water. She was diagnosed by two vets as having immune system dysfunction. These bumps went away when we would take her to circuit horse shows in non fluoridated areas and came back when she drank fluoridated water at home, until we got river water and then Pagosa Springs fluoridation stopped. She has not had a recurrence of these bumps since fluoridation was stopped. She had also developed a chronic cough when drinking fluoridated water, but that is totally gone. She was bred this last May and we are hoping and praying for a healthy and normal foal this spring. She is the first mare that had been on fluoridated water that we have been able to get in foal since 2000, despite trying diligently.Skips Classic Edition (Mister) who was born in 1986, has had a chronic cough for the biggest part of his life and especially when he was worked. This last summer my husband took him on a pack trip up into the San Juan Mountains for four days and he didn't cough once. It was amazing.
Cleansing from fluoride poisoning
All of our horses have had oozing from mostly their coronary bands along the top of their hooves for years. In 2003, when I started giving them alternative treatments, herbs, and homeopathic remedies, they showed signs that their bodies were trying to cleanse naturally of the accumulated fluoride and they all started oozing at lymph node sites also. This oozing has continued through 2004 and 2005, lessening over time. About a month ago, I noticed that all the horses had stopped this oozing.I will continue with the holistic cleansing protocol because I know it will take time to get the years of accumulated fluoride out of their systems. I feel they need the extra help in cleansing fluoride out as quickly as possible, just time and clean water are not enough. From the results I am getting, I know it works. I am totally convinced – the obvious improvement in their health since my horses quit drinking fluoridated water, after years of a continual decline in health during the time they were drinking fluoridated water, is proof positive that the fluoride was poisoning them. I want to thank God for revealing this to me and giving me the knowledge and people with the knowledge to be able to diagnose the problem myself. For over fifteen years our local water department totally ignored my letters and calls to stop fluoridation. I want to thank all the experts I've talked to over the years for their patience with me and to those who directed me to Dr. Krook. I especially want to thank Dr. Krook from Cornell University for his time, knowledge and expertise in diagnosing my horses with chronic fluoride poisoning and accepting the bones I sent for diagnosis. I also want to thank him for not ignoring me and acknowledging my fluoride poisoning suspicions when I called him on the phone out of the blue. He said I was the first to ever do such a thing. It does pay to be bull-headed, not give up and pursue what you believe in your heart to be true. . I feel we are going to see a snowball effect on this subject and the producers of this poison are suddenly going to have a rude awakening. And it is about time. Sincerely, Cathy.
# posted by Middle Child @ Monday, June 26, 2006 
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